History VideoGame / StarFoxAdventures

For those who are curious about the game's original incarnation as ''Dinosaur Planet'', a text file has been ripped from the game and can be found [[http://kcat.strangesoft.net/texts.txt here,]] and contains a decent amount of original content before becoming ''Star Fox Adventures''. Be warned as it contains spoilers both major and minor for the game. A decent amount of content from ''Dinosaur Planet'' itself can be found [[http://www.rareminion.com/dp.html here.]]

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For those who are curious about the game's original incarnation as ''Dinosaur Planet'', a text file has been ripped from the game and can be found [[http://kcat.strangesoft.net/texts.txt here,]] and contains a decent amount of original content before becoming ''Star Fox Adventures''. Be warned as it contains spoilers both major and minor for the game. A decent amount of content from ''Dinosaur Planet'' itself can be found [[http://www.rareminion.com/dp.html [[http://rarethief.com/dinosaur-planet/ here.]]

** Tricky shares the name of a triceratops that appeared in another rare game, ''VideoGame/DiddyKongRacing''. Both species of dinosaurs are of the same suborder but Tricky is a Monoclonius, as he only has one horn.

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** Tricky shares the name of a triceratops that appeared in another rare game, ''VideoGame/DiddyKongRacing''. Both species of dinosaurs are of the same suborder but Tricky is a Monoclonius, ''Centrosaurus'', as he only has one horn.

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* InterspeciesRomance: Tricky's mother and father are a ''Protoceratops'' and ''Centrosaurus'' respectively.

* YNot: Displayed through the Dino language, as the only letter from the default Latin alphabet that doesn't exist is Y (wherever it would go during a translation from English, letter O is used instead).

* KillEnemiesToOpen: Some barriers look like red vortexes with a skull in the middle and a number of little "spirits" orbiting around them, which indicates how many enemies you need to kill to open them.

''Star Fox Adventures'' is a {{video game}} produced by {{Rare}} (the last on a Nintendo home console before leaving for Microsoft) for the UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube, and the [[OddballInTheSeries oddball in the]] ''VideoGame/StarFox'' series. [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Originally]] an unrelated {{Nintendo 64}} title called ''Dinosaur Planet'', the game contains very little of the [[{{Shmup}} shooting]] and spaceship-piloting that the series was known for, relegating these aspects to mini-games between large chunks of [[ActionAdventure action-filled adventuring]] gameplay.

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''Star Fox Adventures'' is a {{video game}} produced by {{Rare}} (the last on a Nintendo home console before leaving for Microsoft) for the UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube, and the [[OddballInTheSeries oddball in the]] ''VideoGame/StarFox'' series. [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Originally]] an unrelated {{Nintendo 64}} UsefulNotes/Nintendo64 title called ''Dinosaur Planet'', the game contains very little of the [[{{Shmup}} shooting]] and spaceship-piloting that the series was known for, relegating these aspects to mini-games between large chunks of [[ActionAdventure action-filled adventuring]] gameplay.

* YNot: Displayed through the Dino language, as the only letter from the default Latin alphabet that doesn't exist is Y (wherever it would go during a translation from English, letter O is used instead).

* GenreShift: From a rail shooter to an action RPG in the vein of the 3D ''Legend of Zelda'' games. There are occasional rail shooter segments spiced into the game and the series would return to its roots with ''Assault''.

* [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse What Happened to the CloudRunner?]]: During Krystal's tutorial stage, she finds a [=CloudRunner=] in a cage on Scale's ship and tries to rescue it. She is tossed overboard and goes directly from there to the distress signal. Neither the ship nor the fate of the caged [=CloudRunner=] is ever mentioned again.

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* [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse What Happened to the CloudRunner?]]: WhatHappenedToTheMouse: During Krystal's tutorial stage, she finds a [=CloudRunner=] in a cage on Scale's ship and tries to rescue it. She is tossed overboard and goes directly from there to the distress signal. Neither the ship nor the fate of the caged [=CloudRunner=] is ever mentioned again.

* WolfpackBoss: The second Spellstone, instead of being guarded by a large or powerful creature, is in the hands of a trio of [=SharpClaw=] Riders whom Fox must pursue through the large, underground vault of [=CloudRunner=] Fortress (General Scales gave it to them so he could escape from Fox). Unlike in the standard chase sequences, Fox must hurry in taking them down, because his vehicle's fuel is finite, so it also qualifies as a TimeLimitBoss.

* ZeroEffortBoss: General Scales' galleon. It is impossible to die during this fight, no matter how many times you get hit. Much later, [[spoiler:General Scales himself]] becomes this, see DummiedOut above.

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* ZeroEffortBoss: General Scales' galleon. It is impossible to die during this fight, no matter how many times you get hit. Much later, Near the end of the game, [[spoiler:General Scales himself]] becomes this, see DummiedOut above.this.

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